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Melanie: Royal Albert Hall, London

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 October 1972

CLEARLY, A Melanie concert is no place to be for a boozed up, doped out degenerate to sit chain-smoking and picking his nose. The vast and faintly bizarre auditorium of Albert's Victorian memento mori was packed with sensitive young people, plus a few elders in beards and appropriately sober garb. They were waiting for the Big M.

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